Touristy Weekend :)
Space Needle
Last weekend in Seattle was super sunny, warm and clear, with awesome blue skies! I’m beginning to enjoy the slow advent of summer here; while the weather has been moody in general, the past few weekends have been gorgeous beyond belief! So we made the most of it, just like we usually do and did a ton of touristy stuff. A year ago, when we first moved to the city, we made it a point to explore everything that it had to offer. This weekend, we decided to revisit all these places and restrengthen our love for the place 
In short, we wouldn’t have chosen a better day to walk around town. We started off with the Space Needle as usual. On a good day, the area around the space needle, is filled with people – musicians, families walking around, children playing in the grass – its such an amazing place for people watching! There is also a big line of people waiting to get to the space needle’s observation deck as it is otherwise really freezing on non-sunny days! We got some amazing pictures of the puget sound, here is one of my favorites -
Puget Sound view from the Space Needle observation deck
While it was warmer than most days, it was still sort of cold, so after freezing our butts off for a while, clicking some awesome pictures and people watching, we jumped on the elevator down and decided to take a walk to the musical fountain. The fountain is the centerpiece of the vibrant area surrounding the space needle. The lawns around the fountain are always full of musicians, singing, playing their guitars and generally having a great time. The kids love to run into the fountain and sometimes the adults join in. There is caramelized popcorn and cotton candy for sale. All the place needs is a carousel and it would be like a dream come true for me 
[that and some awesome twinkly lights, so that I can get some good bokeh with my camera ]
Children playing in the Dancing Fountain
After spending a lot of time here, listening to music and eating cotton candy, we decided to walk across to the EMP, but it looked super crowded, so we just made our way to Zeeks Pizza – which is AWESOME! Atleast, I think it was coz I was super super hungry! It was not as great as our regular Pagliacci or as gourmet as Serious Pie, but it was a comfortable in-between and perfect to finish the long day. Too bad we were too hungry to click any pictures
I have a bunch of pictures from our walk through Pike Place and Downtown, which I’ll save for a different day and post
P.S – All pictures in this post were shot with my iPhone4 and processed with Camera+
It was fun. You should put some pics taken with the other camera too, although it may not be as good as this. =D!
Brilliant picture of the Space Needle, with the sun in the frame as well and of course the blue-sky background. (You may know, but the Space Needle celebrated its 50th Anniversary on I think April 21, 2011!)
I knew it was celebrating 50 yrs, but didn’t know it was on April 21st, thanks for the trivia and also for dropping by to read my post